Re: version numbers in testing-proposed-updates

2004-08-26 Thread Matt Brubeck
Frank K?ster wrote: > By the way, why are only alphanumerics, . and + allowed in version > numbers? If this were less resctrictive, one could do > > dpkg --compare-versions 1-3_sarge.1 gt 1-3.1; echo $? In part so that filenames can be parsed easily. If package names and version numbers could co

Re: version numbers in testing-proposed-updates

2004-08-26 Thread Matt Brubeck
Frank Küster wrote: > By the way, why are only alphanumerics, . and + allowed in version > numbers? If this were less resctrictive, one could do > > dpkg --compare-versions 1-3_sarge.1 gt 1-3.1; echo $? In part so that filenames can be parsed easily. If package names and version numbers could co

Re: version numbers in testing-proposed-updates

2004-08-25 Thread Frank Küster
Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [clear explanation] thanks very much. > Unfortunately, -3sarge1 sorts before -3.1, so if you want as maintainer > to backport a NMU to sarge, you're out of luck for straightforward > solutions. I'll see that there won't be NMU's to be backported.

Re: version numbers in testing-proposed-updates (was: current specialities for NMUs)

2004-08-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 03:28:29PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in debian-devel: > > > These packages are frozen, i.e. newer uploads to unstable won't go > > into testing. The official way is to upload also a package to > > testing. To upload a package to te

Re: version numbers in testing-proposed-updates (was: current specialities for NMUs)

2004-08-25 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 03:28:29PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in debian-devel: > > These packages are frozen, i.e. newer uploads to unstable won't go into > > testing. The official way is to upload also a package to testing. To upload > > a package to testi

version numbers in testing-proposed-updates (was: current specialities for NMUs)

2004-08-25 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, when we last had a freeze, I wasn't a DD yet, therefore this was new for me: Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in debian-devel: > These packages are frozen, i.e. newer uploads to unstable won't go into > testing. The official way is to upload also a package to testing. To upload > a

Re: version numbers in testing-proposed-updates

2004-08-25 Thread Frank Küster
Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [clear explanation] thanks very much. > Unfortunately, -3sarge1 sorts before -3.1, so if you want as maintainer > to backport a NMU to sarge, you're out of luck for straightforward > solutions. I'll see that there won't be NMU's to be backported.

Re: version numbers in testing-proposed-updates (was: current specialities for NMUs)

2004-08-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 03:28:29PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in debian-devel: > > > These packages are frozen, i.e. newer uploads to unstable won't go > > into testing. The official way is to upload also a package to > > testing. To upload a package to te

Re: version numbers in testing-proposed-updates (was: current specialities for NMUs)

2004-08-25 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 03:28:29PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in debian-devel: > > These packages are frozen, i.e. newer uploads to unstable won't go into > > testing. The official way is to upload also a package to testing. To upload > > a package to testi

version numbers in testing-proposed-updates (was: current specialities for NMUs)

2004-08-25 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, when we last had a freeze, I wasn't a DD yet, therefore this was new for me: Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in debian-devel: > These packages are frozen, i.e. newer uploads to unstable won't go into > testing. The official way is to upload also a package to testing. To upload > a